Um the general fund at the end of June 30th, 2025 ended with approximately $42 million. And I'm just going to approximate the numbers here. Um however, the 42 million has certain restrictions. The first being your your capital reserve. In your capital reserve, you have approximately 20.1 million which is restricted for capital projects. And these are the projects that are in your long range facilities plan. So only for capital projects. Your next restricted fund balance is your maintenance reserve which is restricted for uh expenditures that are in your comprehensive maintenance plan and that totals approximately 6.4 million. Uh unemployment compensation reserve approximately 268,000. This is restricted for any unemployment claims. year-end incumbrances. These are your o open purchase orders at the end of the year which roll into your current year where your goods and services have not been rendered and that totals approximately 7.3 million.
Diana Harren, present. Bill Kohler. U Bill Kaylor and I'm present. >> Earl Terry present. Thank you. And Shauna to to >> I am present. >> Thank you. Moving on, we will move on to the call to the public comments. We obviously have an extreme amount of comments which I am very happy to see. Um we both we have approximately 22 comments we received on the website and I think approximately that for all of you in person. We will start with the people that are here to make their in-person comment. If you are using your voice tonight, you will have two minutes to speak. I will set a timer and when I say you are done, you will be respectfully done.
This is what being on the right side of history looks like. It looks like young people who care enough to participate, who are willing to stand up for what they believe in and who do so in a way that reflects the values we hold and hope to see in future leaders. Civil engagement like this should never scare us. It should inspire us. It's also important to acknowledge that meaningful action often comes with consequences and that doesn't diminish the moment. It reinforces how important it is. If standing up didn't matter, there wouldn't be weight attached to it. Consequences are part of understanding how democracy works and why real change is never passive. John Lewis reminded us to make good trouble. Good trouble is intentional. Good trouble is principled. And good trouble recognizes that progress requires courage even when it is isn't easy or comfortable. Moving forward, I want our students to know how proud I am of them.
Going into Champions Field. Well, they get a standoff kickoff. We're going to jump over to Mario Kart over immediately within just a couple seconds getting that goal. 13 seconds exactly. So, now we are on to round two of the Triforce Cup. There we go. Had to think of it for a second. And if you didn't know, for Mario Kart, the team with the highest score at the end of those courses win the match and we play best two out of three for the circuits. So this is round two. If we win this, then that is game. If we don't, then we move on to game three. Looks like we're holding first, second, looks like third, and eighth. [snorts] Looks like we end off Rainbow Road with top three and fifth. Pretty good stats, I must say. We're just under about six points, I believe, from doubling them.
I mean, >> in order to utilize the food pantry, >> for better or worse, it's our volunteers that are doing their bath to pack orders that they hope that the people who access will enjoy >> and I encourage people who are accessing it to be very detailed and >> about what their requests are. there um either on the online form there's space where they can either add to or give specific instructions or over the phone I really get to know a lot of people >> and they can give me specific instructions but there really isn't the opportunity to come in here and do traditional shopping >> right okay that's good to know and good for people to know >> good so uh one last question for you and then I think we'll chat with a couple of volunteers what is the one item that you would say you don't have that you would really love to have or more of what >> it there's a category.
>> Yeah, >> we know this. How can you something that you as middle class white woman might think is univil might not be univil to someone else and >> that should be uh I think it's actually probably why that Supreme Court case was won as well. Right. >> Yeah. I mean that what you just said is so important. It's something that I find myself commenting on. people will use a certain word like an abstraction >> and I'm like well that abstraction means one thing to that person and one thing to someone else and people are almost surprised that different people could have different interpretations of an abstraction. It's really interesting. The decision protected the right to be rude, unprofessional, and disrespectful when critiquing government officials under the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. And then some people said, well, does this apply to town meeting? Because we have an extremely hyperont controlled town meeting.
Um and we are very proud of the fact that we are expecting 1,390 students to gain an earn industry recognized credential by the end of the year which is fantastic. We want to double triple quadruple that number um each year and and continually grow that out. Um as you know we've had uh made very good use of our implementation and the resource of um adding the science of reading um programming in the form of our artcore curriculum. Over the last three years kindergarten has increased 17% on the end ofear benchmark which is dibbles. Um and from 22 to 23 and through 2425 resulting in our 2425 having 63% of kindergarten that were at or above benchmark which is great. And that's going to mean that our base, as our base grows stronger and that rolls through the school system, um we'll we'll we should start to see um those numbers start to affect our our larger accountability index numbers.
um especially if we're starting like at elementary, those are really critical years and to take away faculty and um teachers who were critical to these students growth and learning. Um it's just really sad to see. Um so I'm just here on behalf of myself and a lot of other PAR educators that I know who aren't able to make it today to just um really ask you to place more value on special education. Um it's just something that is really I don't want to say victimized but um they you know there's a lot of burden placed on special education and a lot of um negativity and that's not the case. Um special education has been one of the greatest things that I've been able to do in my life is to be able to help care for these students in these programs. Um and I know that a lot of other par educators and teachers and faculty would agree with me.
Assigned designated approximately 1.1 million that was utilized in your current 2526 budget. And lastly is your unassigned unrestricted amount of approximately 7 million. This is the 2% that the state allows you to keep plus any any allowable adjustments, which is usually um unbudgeted extraordinary aid and non-public transportation aid. So, you're at your 2% max and you're unassigned. Um and you also deposited approximately uh 2.9 million into your maintenance reserve. So this was in excess of the 2% that the state allows you to keep. Um every June you do a resolution where you approve any excess monies into your various reserves which you know one one being your capital maintenance uh emergency reserve. Um so in 2425 you were able to deposit approximately 2.9 million into your maintenance reserve. Um as far as any recommendations this year in 2425 uh we had three recommendations in this year's audit.
If you are using ASL tonight, you will have three minutes to be able to sign your comment to us. Uh, I am allotting not our usual 10 minutes for this. I am allotting 45 minutes to hear public comment. All right, Linda, would you like to start with calling our first public comment? >> Yes. Thank you, President Buchanan. The first one is from Melissa. I apologize. Rosenhoff. >> Rushoff. Thank you. Melissa Rushoff. >> Good afternoon, board president, members of the board. Before I begin, I'd like everyone that's here on behalf of ASDB to please stand. Yeah. And if there's a record, I'd like it to reflect that. Um, almost the entire body is is standing. I actually didn't expect that to be honest with you. Um, but I appreciate you hearing from me. I understand and I haven't been able to be at many of these forums, but I understand that you've heard from a lot of the parents partly through the the website and partly through these different forums.
Years from now, they will look back at this moment and remember that they stood up. They used their voices with purpose and did so with dignity. One day they will tell the next generation that they were there, that they chose to engage. They chose courage. They chose to understood what it meant to be part of something bigger than themselves. And that's how values are passed down. That is how leadership begins and that's how history move forward. [applause] >> Thank you. Um, uh, Sandy Faul from MEA. >> [clears throat] >> Raina apologizes. She's not able to be here tonight, so I'm here in her spot. Good evening, President Mcronis, Vice President Raymond, members of the governing board, Dr. Strereer, senior staff, and members of the audience. My name is Sandy Faulk, and I come before you wearing two hats, both of which matter deeply to me.
Now we're on to Ice Ice Outpost. Hopefully, everyone selects it this time cuz someone put Wario's Gold Mine instead of Rainbow Road, which is a very common occurrence. Why we choose the wrong map on a circuit that only has four? Who knows? People do people, I guess. Strong starts from everyone. Looks like we're taking off in fourth and third from EMTT and Lane. Bald closely behind with Asher in fifth who just now dropped to seventh. Lane missing that shortcut yet again. Come on Lane, you got it. Start drifting a little sooner. Don't hit your own teammate. Also, are we Oh, that's a name tag. I saw Caramel and I was like, are we fighting Caramel High School again? I thought we did that previously. Song Kunk. That's a interesting username. Cart shove into the wall. That's a little nasty move, especially on your own teammate.
>> Okay. >> That's hygiene and cleaning supplies. Yeah. Those are items that are not covered under SNAP benefits. So >> Oh, okay. >> Um they're heavily requested items and if they're not donated, we have to purchase them. >> Um >> so hygiene, shampoo, conditioner, soap, body wash, >> Toilet paper. Toilet paper. Okay. Okay. >> Yeah. So those are, you know, those are the main categories. toilet paper, even things like paper towels. For a lot of families, those are luxuries. And um especially things like like you said, the shampoo, soap, conditioner, those affect the child's ability to go to school, whether they can have clean clothes and be clean, >> laundry detergent. >> Yeah. So, those are that's the category of things that we always hope for. >> Good. So, if you're looking to donate, think about those categories rather than the pastas and the cereals that a lot of people think about, but personal care items and cleaning items.
So, I don't know that anyone's done a a a probably maybe have to do a a lawsuit. And one thing I came across because I I was watching um it was it was about zoning. It was called Emer City and it was on a point of view on WGBHPs, I don't know. And it was people who were coming together at these zoning meetings because somebody bought a property and wanted to zone it and they didn't like it. And that led me to something called because some of the I thought some of the people in the audience really reacted to being told that they had to have a civil conversation. It's called viewpoint biased censorship. And [clears throat] so sometimes the people are invited to a meeting but then like they're invited but are they really invite? Do they really want to hear from you? So I think this law is actually really important to keep it open for people.
So, we're very excited about about those efforts. Um some nice little points to uh you know, how are we spending some of our operational money? How are we working with the city? So, we've had some great progress over the last year and a half. Um, DHS West, the Science Room renovation. These are in collaboration with the city and we're very thankful for the partnership. Um, BMS Counseling Center, we've tiled the floor. Uh, Mill Ridge and KSI pod flooring replaced and upgraded. Ellsworth roof replacement from the city. Haztown elevator construction is still underway. The stadium lights, auditorium seating, uh, DHS main academy refresh and painting, Penrook floor replacement, AS retaining wall, that's uh, largely on the city side, but these are things that are happening. uh in consultation and collaboration with the city and of course our KSB playground fence. Why are these things important? Because the learning environment and our facilities matter.
So I'm just asking to please reconsider cutting these positions because they are is very very critical to the needs of our students. Thank you. >> Thank you. [applause] All right. Next we'll have Sarah, then Gring and then JC Scott. Okay. Sorry. >> May I begin? >> Yes. Thank you >> members of the board, cabinet, the community, and my union brothers and sisters of both units, CSA and Nvooda. My name is Graying Isan, CSEA Labor Relations Representative of the Ranchukamonga field office assigned to Apple Valley Chapter 82A. I want to be clear, the scale of classified layoffs being proposed is not supported by the district's own financial documents and it does not address the real causes of the budget deficit. According to the FIDMAT, this deficit was caused by using one-time funds to pay for ongoing salaries and benefits, entering agreements without identifying permanent funding sources and delaying corrective action even after deficit spending began.
Um none of them were repeats from the prior year. So prior year's audit 232 24 uh recommendations were corrected in 2425. Um so there's three recommendations. their initiative audit which um tonight you're going to have a corrective action plan that you're going to vote on um that will then address the implementation to correct those three recommendations. Um and we consider these three recommendations not to be any you know anything material in nature.
And so I will let them share their own individual experiences and what this has meant to them. I also understand there's been a lot of data shared and there's been some discrepancies in what that data looks like. So I will let the data speak for itself or the or the lack thereof. It's my understanding and on information and belief that what has been provided was just provided to the families on January 16th or later than that date, which is way too recent um and too fast for anything to really happen intentionally and thoughtfully. So, I really like that your you know, your comment was we're going to do everything today lawfully and intentionally and respectfully because that's why I'm here. And at the core of this, this is not about a building that exists in downtown Tucson that was built in 1912. This is not about bringing a population up to Ora Valley.
I'm a proud union member and past president of Morirana Education Association and I also serve as a special education instructional coach in the district working with new teachers to MUSD. I want to begin by acknowledging the incredible work happening across our schools every day. Our special education teachers, service providers, and support staff show extraordinary commitment to meeting the diverse needs of students with disabilities. At the same time, our general education teachers are working tirelessly to support inclusive classrooms, differentiate instruction, and meet the needs of all learners, often with limited time and increasing demands. As an instructional coach, I have the privilege of working alongside both general and special education teachers. I see the collaboration, the problem solving, and the deep care they bring to students. I also see how challenging this work has become. Educators across roles are stretched thin, trying to balance instruction, compliance, behavior support, collaboration, and paperwork, all while maintaining high expectations for students.